Improvement in medical compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUOINDA HATTES, OF MARSEILLES, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,080, dated July 14,

April 18, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUOINDA HATTES, of Marseilles, in the county of LaSalle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Medicines; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has relation to a new and improved medical compound forthe cure of cholera, cholera lnorbus, cholera infantum, diarrhea, andbloody flux; and it consists in the combination of the following medicalsubstances in about the proportions hereinafter specified.

I put two ounces of peppermint in one and a half pint of boiling water;one and a half ounce of kino in a half-pint of boiling water; one ounceof rhubarb in a half-pint of boiling water. When the solutions arecooled they are separately filtered, mixed together, and one and a halfpint of alcohol is added. Then dissolve one ounce of opium in half apint of water, and add one half-pint of alcohol; also, dissolve one halfpint of camphor in a vessel containing a half-pint of water and ahalf-pint of alcohol. I then put all of the above solu- 1874;application filed tions in one vessel, and add one and ahalf pint of thebest brandy, and also a half-ounce of carbonate of soda. I then filter,and after the solution stands one week it is ready for use.

The quantity of the above solution is six and one-half pints, containingone ounce of opium, which gives about four grains of opium of twowitnesses.

LUGINDA HATTES. Witnesses:

D. A. NIoHoLsoN, W. A. MOREY.

